Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Power, 1812-1912" in. Sever 11 this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Dr. Rose is a classical scholar, and is especially well known for his researches and writings on historical subjects. He has been delivering a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute on the various phases of Napoleon's life. Some of his important writings of the last fifteen years are "The Life of Napoleon I", "Napoleonic Studies", chapters in the "Cambridge Modern History", "The Development of European Nations", and the "Life of William Pitt the Younger". The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...Holland Rose, of Cambridge University, England spoke before the History Club in the Common Room of Conant Hall yesterday evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. Rose is noted as a literary man, historian, and extension lecturer. His more important historical works are "The Rise of Democracy", "The Life of Napoleon I" and "The Life of William Pitt the Younger." He offered suggestions based upon his own experience for the guidance of American students intending to engage in historical research in England. Historical manuscripts are to be derived from five general sources, the Public Record Office, the manuscript department...
...advocating four downs instead of three in which to gain the necessary ten yards, there is that which should always apply to rule makers, namely, a further extension of a principle we know something about rather than a plunge into the dark. Perhaps some football Napoleon could, even with the present three downs, so vary the play of his team as to thrust it along the field for a touchdown. I believe that would be quite possible, but the Napoleon would have too many other things to do--like tackling, passing, punting and getting into interference. Hence the Napoleons...
...Legion of Honor was founded in 1802 by Napoleon. It first included only officers of the army but later was extended so as to bring in men of distinction in any line of service. In 1870 the rules were again revised, admitting foreigners and women of merit. The total membership is at present something over twelve thousand and includes the greatest citizens of every land...
...deserted island beg you on their unbendable and likewise un-unbendable knees to clothe them in your cast-off garments. Charity begins at home, gentlemen. Shed a collar, a tear, or a shoe into the Brooks House collection-plate. It will not be wasted. The myrmidons of our little Napoleon, the graduate secretary of Brooks House, have been swarming since early dawn through the Yard tearing the draperies off the statues in Fogg, skinning the fur-coats from the squirrels, and even stripping the bark from the aged elms with pen knives...